It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Quotations
Music
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
